Mud guard



Feb. 1 192.7. ,616,115

A. DELANGE I MUD GUARD Filed May 9. 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Feb- 1 1 A.DELANG E MUD GUARD Filed May 9. 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 & a W L H.

Patented Feb. 1, 1927.

[TED STATES AUG-USTE DELANGE,

OF ROUEN, FRANCE.

MUD GUARD.

Application filed May 9, 1924, Serial No. 712,081, and in France May 9,1923.

This invention has for its object a mud guard the characteristicfeatures of which are as follows:

Itentirely surrounds the outside of the wheel and hence it is formedintegrally therewith. This arrangement avoids all friction upon the hubas well as the inconvenience resulting therefrom when the lubrication ofthe axis of the mud guard support is defective.

Owing to the arrangement of'the flexible teeth the guard stops andcanalizes and mud thrown about While preventing it from escaping axiallyand deadening the effects of centrifugal force.

The accompanying drawings show by way of example various forms ofexecution.

Fig. 1 is a portion of a side view of the mud guard mounted upon thewheel.

Fig. 2 is a sectional plan on line A-B of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a portion of a longitudinal View of the wheel furnished withits mud guard.

4 is an underside View of the mud guard.

Fig. 5 is a modification of the manner of fixing the mud guard on thewheel rim.

Fig. 6 is a side View of Fig. 5' and Fig. 7 is a section on line (3-D ofFig. 5.

Upon the wheel rim 1 furnished with its iimer tube 2 and its pneumatictire 3, the mud guard is secured by means of a suit-- able number ofbolts 4 (generally 3 at 120).

This mud guard is composed of a circular crown piece 6 having the sameshape as the wheel and furnished with shoulder pieces T whereby throughthe medium of bolts 4. the mud guard may be secured to the rim 1.

The whole of the segments turn entirely around the wheel and may bejointed one to the other. Each segment 8 of suitable resilient material(india rubber or the like) reinforced by canvas 9 having such a crosssection that one of its edges 11 bears upon the pneumatic tire 3. Thelower part of the segments is divided into teeth 12 arranged in quincunxalong a given number of rows.

In Figs. 5, 6 and 7 the wheel rim 1 carries male conical pieces 13 andthe crown piece ('3 of the female pieces 14 surrounds the precedingones. Any suitable number of such pieces may be used and preferablyarranged in symmetrical order upon the circumference of the rim and ofthe crown piece while corresponding one to the other.

The joint action of the crown piece 6 with pieces 15 fixed to the formerby screws 16 preventing the male part from moving out of its place 14.These pieces 15 may be less in number than those of the hooking onparts.

The mud thrown sidewise by the tire stopped by the flexible teeth andcanalized between them, while the teeth coining lll'l mediately behindthem deaden the effects of centrifugal force by stopping the mud whichmay be thrown about tangentially. Besides the form ofthe teeth is suchthat centrifugal force would bring back the mud towards the insidewhence it would be taken up by the row of median or inner teeth.

It should be well understood that the mud guard which forms the objectof this inven tion may be carried out in other ways without departingfrom the nature of this invention, thus the number of rows of teeth, themud guard and the like may vary within the limits of this invention.

I claim:

1. A rotating mud guard for vehicles, comprising a rim portion adaptedto be re movably secured to the wheel, and a flexible part to rest uponthe wheel tire, the free edge of the flexible part being formed as independent rows of flexible teeth in relatively offset relation to avoiduninterrupted through spaces transversely of the teeth, said teethhaving their terminals turned in the direction of forward travel of thewheel.

2. A rotating mud guard for vehicle whee-l rims, composed of a circularcrown piece secured to the rim of the wheel, and a flexible partoverlying and extending toward the periphery of the tire on the rim.said flexible part being made up of superimposed reinforce segments,each formed with edge teeth, the teeth of the respective segments beingrelatively offset to avoid uninterrupted through spaces between theteeth.

3. A rotating mud guard for vehicle wheel rims, composed of a circularcrown piece secured to the rim of the wheel, and a flexible partoverlying and extending toward the periphery of the tire on the rim,said flexible part being made up of three superimposed reinforcesegments, each formed with edge teeth, the teeth of. the respectivesegments being relatively offset to avoid uninterrupted through spacesbetween the teeth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

AUGUSTE DELANGE.

